Monday, October 17, 6:00pm Jackson Heights, Queens | Daniel Karatzas, Jackson Heights Beautification Group Jackson Heights is New York City’s first planned neighborhood of “garden apartments” and “garden homes”. These airy, light-filled residences, combined with commercial and institutional buildings, provided an attractive environment for middle-class families to live in when it was developed in […]
Six to Celebrate tour of The Bowery On September 17th we will tour The Bowery, one of Manhattan’s oldest thoroughfares, stretching from Cooper Square to Chatham Square. The area has a fascinatingly rich history, ranging from a fashionable shopping and residential neighborhood at the end of the 18th century, to a bustling center of dry […]
Historic Districts Council Honors Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel as Landmarks Lion Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The Historic Districts Council, a citywide organization dedicated to preserving New York’s historic neighborhoods, will present its Annual Landmarks Lion Award to Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. Dr. Diamonstein-Spielvogel is a longtime preservation leader and champion of the arts, serving as the first Director of […]
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL June 2011, Volume 8, Number 1 ~Special Program~ Greenwich Village: Past, Present, and Future Wednesday, June 8, 6:30 pm Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue The Village has been transformed over the centuries from farmland to row houses to tenements to luxury condominiums. How does […]
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL May 2011, Volume 8, Number 2 ~ Monday Morning Coffee Talk~ Preserving Cultural and Historic Landscapes of New York City Parks Monday, June 6 at 8:30am Joseph Disponzio will discuss how NYC Department of Parks and Recreation is approaching the preservation of the cultural and historic […]
Landmarks @ 45: Learn About Preservation History & Contribute Your Story In celebration of the forty-fifth anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law, the New York Preservation Archive Project is launching a new website, landmarks45.org, to encourage recognition of this event and chronicle the past five decades of preservation history. This project is […]
June 15, 6:30 Gotham Center for NYC History 365 Fifth Avenue @34th St– Auditorium Free but reservations required at 212 817- 8215 Always in a class by itself, today’s Lower East Side is beginning to look just like any other place, on the surface at least. Join four scholars of the Lower East Side as […]
